Graduates Quotes · Page 6

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without…

— Victor Davis Hanson

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

— Thomas J. Sargent

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

— Simone Elkeles

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

— M. H. Abrams

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

— Russell Banks

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

— Nell Irvin Painter

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

— Jim Cymbala

I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so…

— John Petrucci

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some…

— Daniel Greenberg

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had…

— Barney Frank

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After…

— Kurt Vonnegut

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of…

— Barack Obama

For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last…

— Edward Snowden

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal…

— Jesse McCartney

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.'…

— Jeffrey Donovan

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but…

— Oliver Harris

The promise of learning is a delusion… Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process…

— John Ashbery

The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line…

— Julian Castro

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from…

— Bruce Feiler

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were…

— Benigno Aquino III

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable…

— Bernie Sanders

In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

— John C. Maxwell

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false…

— Peter Dinklage

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

— Dana Spiotta

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more…

— Andy Rooney

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

— Henry David Thoreau

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

— Edith Hamilton

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

— Robert F. Goheen

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

— Gillian Roberts

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on…

— Jacob Lew

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I…

— Laura Bush

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

— George Foreman

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

— Anonymous

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

— J. Anthony Lukas

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

— Tracie Thoms